Tumbleton Ram House on West of Debdon Burn at Foot of Tumbelton Dam is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. A C19 Pumphouse.
Tumbleton Ram House on West of Debdon Burn at Foot of Tumbelton Dam
- WRENN ID
- little-floor-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Pumphouse
- Address
- Tumbleton Ram House on West of Debdon Burn at Foot of Tumbelton Dam, Rothbury
- OS grid reference
- NU 070 024
- Coordinates
- 55.31641, -1.8906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tumbleton Ram House is a pumphouse built around 1866 for Lord Armstrong, located on the west side of Debdon Burn at the foot of Tumbleton Dam. The structure is made of rock-faced stone with rock-faced and margined dressings, topped with a 20th-century corrugated iron roof. The south elevation is divided into two parts: on the left is the gabled end of the pumphouse featuring a three-light mullioned window and a slit window above it, along with a boarded door on the right return. To the right is a lower structure that has a doorway and two two-light windows on the right return; this part once supported a header tank, which has since been removed.
The hydraulic ram was used to pump spring water to a reservoir above Cragside House, supplying domestic water and powering the main lift and turbines for kitchen and laundry equipment, as well as the conservatories at Cragside Park House. The building was undergoing restoration at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Tumbleton Ram House on West of Debdon Burn at Foot of Tumbelton Dam receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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